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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 19, 2003
I had my hands on a little ladybug clip on watch at work yesterday. I looked everywhere for its proper home. I thought about asking my manager where the little b****er belonged, verbatim. But I decided not to, since she's married to an Englishman and might not think I was funny. 
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Jul 20, 2003
Hey there GD! Everyone!
Hope all is well with all of you.
Been having a colourful time recently?
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 21, 2003
My time has been TERRIBLY colorful lately!!! 
LHG
There was a bunny and a four foot long snake in my backyard yesterday... and a storm last night... and the night before the snake, this wild lightning show got up close and personal... And I didn't work Saturday or Sunday... a bizarre weekend!!!!
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Bassman - Funny how people never ceases to amaze me! Posted Jul 21, 2003
That sounds interesting - But I thought you lived in Blighty.... What are you doing with a snake in your back garden??
Bassman 
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 21, 2003
**puts on smart-arse hat**
There are three breeds of snake native to Britain: the adder, the grass snake and the slow-worm, although the latter is not technically a snake but a lizard with no legs.
B
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GreyDesk Posted Jul 21, 2003
You thought Draggers lived in the UK 
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 21, 2003
WOOHOO!!!! 
Hee hee.... 
Not yet. Ten months and I will, but only from June-Sept... then I'll be back in Colorado, USA for a couple of months, just so Scotland Yard doesn't interrogate me. And then I'll come back for Guy Fawke's Day, of course.... Dunno just yet when I plan to drop back in on the States after that, but sometime, I imagine, after the January London Meet. Of course.
Hee hee...
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 21, 2003
I didn't know about the three types of
snake in England. Now I know why they
chose the name "Blackadder" for that
tv series. 
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GreyDesk Posted Jul 21, 2003
When I was a kid we used to go out collecting slow-worms. No reason for it, and we didn't hurt them or anything.
I guess it made a pleasant change to setting fire to rubbish bins.
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 22, 2003
What did you do with them when you'd collected them?
B
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Red (and a bit grey) Dog Posted Jul 22, 2003
I wished you hadn't asked that - he might tell us 
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GreyDesk Posted Jul 22, 2003
We used to scare the little kids by telling them that the slow-worms were deadly poisonous. The we'd put them back where we found them.
A boring childhood really
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GreyDesk Posted Jul 22, 2003
... the slow-worms that is. We couldn't care less where the little kids went ...
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 23, 2003
hahahahaa...
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Red (and a bit grey) Dog Posted Jul 24, 2003
So GD, interesting close season the mighty Blades are having - Warnock charged with bringing the game into disrepute and 2 sections of the stand closed down because of poor fan behaviour ?
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Fluffy Pink Rabbit. (Remember that polyester has feelings, too) Posted Jul 25, 2003
I'm sorry, but "slow worm" is not a very
scary name for a snake.
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parrferris Posted Jul 25, 2003
That's because they're not very scary - in fact they're rather sweet little fellas, I've always thought.
I've yet to see a snake in the wild, even though I often visit some local sites that are particularly noted for their adder populations. My brother Ed, who is a nature reserve warden up in Gloucestershire, tells me he only recently saw his first after nearly a year on the reserve, a five-foot grass snake.
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broelan Posted Jul 25, 2003
when i worked at summer camp we had a map that we would mark snake sightings on. i (fortunately) never saw a snake, but we caught a poisonous one the second year i was there. it was either a rattlesnake or a copperhead, i forget which.
we get grass snakes near where i live. kinda cute and perfectly harmless - aside from scaring the daylights out of my former monster-in-law 
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Fluffy Pink Rabbit. (Remember that polyester has feelings, too) Posted Jul 25, 2003
Oh, come on, you must be kidding.
Snakes don't have *any* feet, let alone five
of them.
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parrferris Posted Jul 25, 2003
I knew that was coming...
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